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Henry Vandyke, formerly of Hanover township, Lancaster county, leaving a widow, Elizabeth; children, Lambert, John, Sarah, Hannah, Mary, and Elizabeth. He resided on the second farm east of Buffalo Cross-Roads, now Jackson Rishel's.
John Forster, of Buffalo, (will proved 24th October.) He left a widow, Margaret ; eldest son, Thomas, grandfather of Mrs. Mark Halfpenny ; second son, Andrew; eldest daughter, Christena, mar- ried to John Montgomery; Robert Forster was his youngest son ;
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Jane, second wife of William Irvine; Elizabeth Gray, and Rebecca McFarland. Robert was the father of the late Captain John Fors- ter, of Mifflinburg.
Simon Himrod, elder in the Dreisbach church, and late member of Assembly. He resided in Turbut. His descendants live near Waterford, Erie county, Pennsylvania.
James McClenachan, (in June.) Widow, Sarah ; daughters, Mar- garet, Elizabeth ; sons, Robert, David, and Andrew.
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LEWISBURG LAID OUT BY LUDWIG DERR-BOUNDS OF-FALL ELECTION- WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP ERECTED-WIDOW SMITH'S PETITION-MILITIA OFFICERS.
ICE PRESIDENT, Charles Biddle. William Montgom- ery, Presiding Justice. Justices, 24th January, Simon Snyder, William Irwin; Colonel John Kelly, in August, and William Wilson. Sheriff, Thomas Grant, elected'in October. Walter Clark, John Clarke, and William Gray, all of Buffalo, County Commissioners.
Representatives declared elected : Frederick Antes, Samuel Dale, and William Maclay, over Daniel Montgomery, John Weitzel, and/ Anthony Selin. General Potter, William Maclay, William Mont- gomery, junior, William Gray, and Joseph J. Wallis, Deputy Sur- veyors in the " old purchase." Lawyers admitted: John W. Kittera, John Clark, and John Reily, all officers of the war of the Revolu- tion. Vannost, suspended at February term, for treating the justices with contempt, re-admitted at May term.
Of Buffalo officers : Constable, John Thompson ; quota of State tax, £194; county, £45.
Among the Buffalo taxables were : Armstrong, William, tan-yard ;
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Baldy, Christopher ; Barber, Robert, Esquire, who moved from near Wrightsville ; Billmyer, Andrew ; Brown, John ; Burd, David, who lived where Sherry now lives, in the same township; Christ, Adam ; Colpetzer, Adam, who lived where Jacob Engle now lives, in Lime- stone ; Douglass, William; Evans, Daniel ; Everett, Abel; Giles, Isaac ; Haughawaut, Leffard; Huston, Robert; Jenkins, Morgan ; Knox, George, tan-yard; Laughlin, Adam; Mucklehenny, John ; Voneida, Philip, who purchased of John Crider part of the Cap- tain Kern's tract, (late Peter Voneida place.)
Single Men in Buffalo Township, in 1785-Allison, Archibald ; Bann, Lewis; Beatty, David; Black, William ; Black, Thomas ; Books, George; Clark, John; Cosaith, George ; Cough, Adam ; Cox, Tunis; Dale Henry ; Dale, Christian ; Derr, George ; Dreis- bach, Martin ; Goodman, John ; Gilkeson, a tailor ; Iddings, Wil- liam ; Ingram, John ; Jenkins, Morgan ; Katherman, George ; Leon- ard, Peter ; Lewis, Paschall; Lowdon, Richard; MeGahey, Neal ; McGrady, Captain Samuel; Mook, John ; Rearick, John ; Reese, John; Rees, Daniel ; Scott, William ; Shively, Henry ; Stewart, Archibald; Taylor, Christopher ; Templeton, David; Thompson, John ; Vanvalzen, Levi; Waggoner, Christopher ; Wilson, Samuel ; Youngman, George. Joseph Green, John Aurand, and Thomas Forster, assessors ; which list they returned the 4th of January, 1786.
Among the Residents in White Deer were-Allen, Robert; Bear, John; Coulter, Nathaniel; Eaker, Doctor Joseph; Lacock, John ; Leckey, John ; McAllister, Archibald ; McGinnes, James ; McCorley, Robert, taxed with negro girl; Marshall, Widow; Potter, General James, negro and one servant ; Vandyke, John, junior, (Widow Smith, grist-mill.) In 1785, William Blythe's name disappears from the assessment list, and the two tracts, taken up in his daughters' names, are taxed to his sons-in-law, Captain Charles Gillespie and Doctor Eakers. Daniel Lewis' name disappears, and Paschall Lewis ap- pears in its place. His wife, who was Margaret Paschall, was a relative of Thomas Paschall, a hatter, of Philadelphia, who owned a great amount of wild lands, was married three times ; first to a man named Watson, by whom she had Jesse, James, (who built Seebold's mill,) and John Watson, all settlers in the Valley. Second, to Ma- thers, by whom she had Samuel Mathers and Thomas, also early settlers ; and third to Daniel Lewis, father of Paschall. One of the
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Mathers once went to Philadelphia to get his share of the fortune. He got as his share-a lot of hats-enough to hat the whole Valley, nearly.
Among the Penn's Taxables were-Arbogast, John ; Dreis, Jacob ; Herrold, Simon, ferry and grist-mill; Miller, Dewalt, saw-mill ; Pontius, John ; Pontius, Peter ; Schoolmaster, Abel; Shipton, Thomas; Shisley, Jacob, Sinclair, Duncan ; Smith, David; Selin & Snyder, store, negro slave, and forty acres of land ; Speakman, James ; Stoll, Mathias ; Swineford, John; Vanhorn, Daniel ; Weiand, Jacob ; Witmer, Peter, with ferry.
In March, 1785, Ludwig Derr. laid out the town of Lewisburg. Samuel Weiser, of Mahanoy township, was the surveyor, and for his services received lot No. 5, on which is now erected the store of Walls, Smith & Co., 1870. His first donation of lots was for reli- gious purposes. 26th March, he, with Catherine, his wife, conveyed lots Nos. 42, 44, and 46 to Walter Clark, William Gray, and William Wilson, in trust for the Presbyterian congregation at or near Lewis- burg, for a meeting-house and burying-ground.
William Maclay made the survey of the tract the town stands on the 28th of February, 1769. Ludwig Derr lived upon it as early as I770. It was patented on the 11th of August, 1772, to Reverend Richard Peters, who conveyed, on the 17th of September, 1773, to Ludwig Derr, by the following description, "containing three hun- dred and twenty acres, situated at the mouth of Spring run, below and adjoining the mouth of Buffalo creek." Weiser's survey was as follows:
The southern boundary commenced at a post at the river, at the the corner of the tract on which the mill is erected ; thence along the land of the said Derr, S. 80120 W. 121 perches 212 feet, to a stone ; thence N. about 1012º W. 164 perches, to a stone ; thence N. about 8012° E. about 139 perches 2 1/2 feet, to a post or stake, by the north-west side of Buffalo creek ; thence down the creek to its moutlı, and thence down the river to the place of beginning, and con- tained about one hundred and twenty-eight acres, which was divided into three hundred and fifty-five lots.
By the act of the 31st of March, 1812, which incorporated " the president and directors of the streets, lanes, and alleys of the town of Lewisburg," the charter bounds commenced at the south side
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of the mouth of Lyman's (formerly called Derr's) run, and ran thence up the south side of the run, including the said run in its meanders, to the line of George Derr's land ; thence along the same to the fording of Buffalo creek ; thence down the south side thereof to the river, and down the river to the place of beginning. And by the act of the 21st of March, 1822, incorporating " the borough of Lewisburg," the bounds were still further increased southerly, as they commenced at the river, at a corner of Jacob Zentmeyer and Margaret Spidler's land, and ran along the same N. 52º W. 62 perches, to a pine ; thence, the same course, by land then of Wil- lianı Shaw, James Bennet, James Geddes, George Berryman, and William Hayes, 236 perches, to a pine on land of George Derr. From this pine the line ran N. 2° W. 208 perches, to the creek ; thence down the creek and river to the beginning.
Ludwig Derr made a lottery the same year, and disposed of some of the lots in this way, among the rest, lot No. 21, corner Fourth and Market, on which (1877) Doctor Howard Wilson is now resid- ing, was drawn by John Brown, and for which he paid three pounds, as appears by the deposition of John Hennig, taken before Colonel John Kelly, on the 2d of May, 1791.
The very first lot sold was No. 351, corner of Water and St. Lewis, to William Wilson, 26th March.
The first residents of Lewisburg were Bolinger, John ; Conser, Henry, (Reverend S. L. M. Conser is a grandson ;) Dering, God- frey, (removed to Selinsgrove; one of his descendants was post- master there ;) Evans, Joseph, cabinet-maker, (descendants still in Lewisburg ;) Leonard, Peter, (descendants still in Lewisburg ;) Long, Edward; Smith, Nicholas ; Welker, Jacob, tailor, (moved to Mifflinburg, and died there.) [See 1788, for a description of Lewis- burg at that time. ] In September, Ludwig Derr went to Philadel- phia to sell lots. The date of his death there is not known. The last deed he signed is dated October 18. December 9, George Derr, Walter Clark , and John Weitzel, administered upon his estate. He left a widow, Catherine, who survived him a very short time, and only one heir, George Derr. September 13, Northumberland county divided into four election districts, Buffalo, White Deer, and Potter in the third, and held their elections at Fought's Mill, (near Mifflinburg.) August sessions, Washington township, now partly in Lycoming,
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erected, the division line commencing a short distance above Widow Smith's mills, thence west, along the south side of White Deer creek, to where Spruce run commences. It was a mere sub-division of White Deer township, calling the northern division Washington. The following is a list of the inhabitants of Washington, as thus erected :
Bennett, Ephraim; Bennett, Justice ; Bennett, Thaddeus ; Ben- nett, Abraham ; Bennett, William ; Bently, Green ; Brown, Charles ; Brown, Judson ; Brown, William; Caldwell, William; Creal, Mi- chael ; Coats, widow; Eason, Robert ; Emnions, John ; Emmons, Jacob; Emmons, Jacob, (single ;) Gray, William, junior ; Green, Ebenezer ; Harley, John; Hendrick, Nathan; Hickendoll, Her- man ; Hood, Moses; Huling, Marcus ; Hunter, widow ; Landon, Nathaniel ; Layn, Abraham; Layn, Isaac; Low, Cornelius, senior and junior ; McCormick, Seth ; McCormick, Thomas ; Mackey, Wil- liam ; Mitchell, John; Ramsey, John; Reynolds, Joseph ; Shaffer, Nicholas; Stephen, Adam; Stricker, John; Sunderland, Daniel ; Tenbrooke, John; Towsend, Gradius; Towsend, Gamaliel ; Weeks, Jesse. Assessors : William Gray, Joseph Allen, and Thomas Mc- Cormick.
The fall election for members of the House was contested. Paul Baldy, John Macpherson, and Samuel Quinn, among others, went to Philadelphia as witnesses. The officer reported Richard Sherer, a wit- ness, absent, and John Gray, another, gone to Fort Pitt. It appears, by the report of the committee, that Frederick Antes had 41 4 votes, Daniel Montgomery 410, Samuel Dale 414, William Maclay 407, John Weitzel 396, Anthony Selin 297. Daniel Montgomery was ousted, and William Maclay put in, upon a tie vote, the Speaker deciding. Twenty-five members signed a protest against these pro- ceedings, which seem to have been dictated by party rancor, for the protestants say the reason of the contest was, that in one district the names of the electors on the poll-list were ten short of the number of tickets received by the inspectors, and that the testimony ac- counted for this defect. They contended that the whole election should have been set aside ; that the vote of the House was destruct- ive to the rights of the people, and an unwarrantable usurpation, of a very dangerous character.
In a petition to the Assembly of this year by Catherine Smith,
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indorsed, read December 8, 1785, she sets forth "that she was left a widow, with ten children, with no estate to support this family, except a location for three hundred acres of land, including the mouth of White Deer creek, whereon is a good mill-seat ; and a grist and saw-mill being much wanted in this new country, at that time, she wast often solicited to erect said mills. At length, in 1774, she borrowed money, and in June, 1775, completed the mills, which were of great advantage to the country, and the following summer built a boring-mill, where a great number of gun-barrels were bored for the continent, and a hemp-mill. The Indian war soon after coming on, (one of her sons, her greatest help, went into the army, and, it is believed, was killed, as he never returned,) the said mills soon became a frontier, and in July, 1779, the Indians burned the whole works. She returned to the ruins in 1783, and was again solicited to re-build the grist and saw-mills, which she has, with much difficulty, accomplished, and now ejectments are brought against her by Messrs. Claypool and Morris, and she, being now reduced to such low circumstances as renders her unable to support actions at law, and, therefore, prays relief," &c. The facts set forth in this memorial are certified to by William Blythe, Charles Gilles- pie, Colonel John Kelly, James Potter, the younger, and many other citizens of Northumberland county.
The Legislature, of course, could grant no relief, under the cir- cumstances, and the petition was dismissed. How long the litiga- tion went on I am unable to determine ; but in 1801, Seth Iredell took possession of the premises as tenant of Claypoole and Morris. She is said to have walked to Philadelphia and back thirteen times on this business. Her house was where Doctor Danousky now (1874) lives, on the Henry High place, part of the old stone house being still used as a kitchen. She was buried in the old settlers' grave-yard, which was at the corner of the Dan Caldwell barn. Her bones were disturbed in Mr. Caldwell's time, in erecting a sheep-pen, and were identified by old Mr. Huff, by her peculiar projecting teeth. Some years since, an old man came to the place and desired to look about the old dwelling. He spent several hours about the place. When leaving, said he had come in from Ohio to see it ; that he was a son of Catherine Smith, and that if justice had been done her, they would still own the place. Rolly McCorley,
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who recollects the mill last built by her, said it was a small, round log mill.
Field Officers Elected in April.
First Battalion-Peter Hosterman, lieutenant colonel; Christo- pher Gettig, major.
Fifth Battalion-John Kelly, lieutenant colonel; Thomas Forster, major.
Company Officers of the Fifth.
Captains-Michael Andrews, William Clark, John Thompson, Joseph Poak, Joseph Green, Samuel McGrady, James Potter, junior, John Macpherson.
Lieutenants-Adam Harper, Joseph Eaker, James Irwin, Samuel Iddings, Henry Pontius, Jacob Dreisbach, John Brown, M. Wild- goose.
Ensigns-Joseph Price, George Clark, George Books, James Moore, J. Hunter, James Templeton.
1786.
SLAVES IN THE VALLEY-PICKERING'S VISIT AT GENERAL POTTER'S-BUF- FALO VALLEY SOLDIERS AT SARATOGA-FIRST FULLING-MILL ERECTED.
RESIDENT of the State, Benjamin Franklin. Member of Council, William Maclay. Members of Assembly, Frederick Antes and Samuel Dale. Lawyers admitted : on examination, John Andre Hanna and Charles Smith ; on motion, John Joseph Henry and Jacob Hubley.
Buffalo, Officers-Collector, George May; Constable, John Cri- der ; Supervisors, George Rote and Leonard Welker; Overseers, John Aurand and Samuel Mathers.
Among the taxables-Carney, Anthony ; Moore, James, tailor ; 16
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Ohrendorf, Henry; Piper, Henry ; Potts, David ; Stephens, Wil- liam; Straub, Jacob; Swartzcope, Anthony; Pool, William, ferry at . Macpherson's. Single Men: Getz, Adam; Grove, Philip; Holmes, Jonathan.
In Lewisburg, additional residents-Armor, Thomas; Hammersly, John ; Roan, Flavel ; Snodgrass, David ; Steele, Alexander; Troxel, George ; Williams, William.
White Deer-Bear, Isaac; Coburn, John; High, Rudolph ; Sherer, Thomas; Sims, William.
Penn's-Auple, Jonas ; Bolender, Adam, junior ; Bossler, George ; Businger, Conrad ; Dauberman, Christian ; Devore, Abram ; Gar- mon, John ; Gemberling, Jacob ; Giltner, Jacob; Gross, Henry ; Gruber, Christian ; Mertz, Philip; Nerhood, Henry ; Winkelpleck, Henry.
In the Valley, Eli Holman, Samuel Hunter, and John Linn are each taxed with female slaves. From the bill of sale, it appears John Linn purchased his slave, called " Judy," of John McBeth, of Ches- ter county, on the roth of April, 1786. After residing fifty-eight years in the Valley, she removed with John Linn's (second) family to Knox county, Ohio, and died near Mount Vernon, in that county, November 4, 1855, upward of one hundred years old.
In March, George Derr and his mother sold George Langs the ground between the railroad bridge and the site of the old wagon bridge. It is not included in the town plan of Lewisburg, or laid out in lots by number. At the same time, William Williams bought No. 343, in Lewisburg, built a stone house, still standing, (Martin Hahn's,) and a frame store-room, adjoining it on the south, and opened the first regular store in the town.
At May sessions, C. Van Gundy was bound over for forcible entry, &c., renewing the old controversy with George Derr, Ludwig's son.
In the life of Colonel T. Pickering, volume 2, page 251, is a letter from him, dated August 12, 1786, " at Philip Francis', about a mile above the mouth of Muncy creek, and three miles below Mr. Wal- lis'," in which he states Mr. Wallis was to go with him to make sur- veys in Wyoming. "As Mr. Wallis was not ready, we spent two nights and one day at General Potter's, where we were kindly enter- tained." On the 15th he adds : " We were to set off for Tioga, but my horse has wounded himself. I am going down to General Pot-
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ter's to borrow or purchase another." This proves clearly that Gen- eral Potter then resided on the Ard farm, just above New Columbia. At August sessions, Andrew Billmyer's tavern was licensed. He kept two miles up the Valley, where his grandson, John Lesher, now lives. Magdalena Pohlhemus, an indentured servant to E. Younk- man, presented a petition to court to be allowed her freedom dues ; and after giving due notice, the court ordered Mr. Younkman to pay her five dollars down, and three dollars next May, as freedom dues for seven year's service.
23d September, an orphans' court was held at the house of Flavel Roan, (at the mouth of Buffalo creek,) before William Irwin and John Kelly, justices, when the applications of George Martin and Samuel McClurgan for pensions were considered. They belonged to Colonel Cooke's twelfth regiment, but were drafted into Colonel Daniel Morgan's riflemen, sent to resist Burgoyne. They were wounded at.Saratoga, in October, 1777.
In September, George Derr sold Flavel Roan and Sankey Dixon the ground between St. John's street and St. Anthony's, along the creek. Sankey and Ann, his wife, sold out to Roan, and went on West. Sankey had been sergeant and ensign all through the war, in sixth Pennsylvania regiment. He died at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1814. Roan then kept the ferry, two years before it had been leased to Henry Conser, who sold to Stephen Duchman, the latter to Roan. Christopher Weiser built the first fulling-mill in the Valley, on Tur- tle creek, on what is now Peter Wolfe's place, and James Watson built the first grist-mill, erected at Seebold's, above New Berlin.
Deaths.
Catharine, widow of Ludwig Derr.
Captain John Forster, often mentioned in Brady's adventures. His old log house stood to the left of the road to Hoffa's mills, be- yond Rishel's stone house. He left a widow, Jane. First son, James, afterwards married to a daughter of William Clark, to whom he willed the old place. James moved to Ohio. His son John, who lived in Brush valley, was the father of Mrs. William C. Duncan, of Lewisburg. Second son, William, a bachelor, said to be the first white child born in the Valley. Third, John Forster, so long a part- ner of James Duncan, at Aaronsburg. (Descendants : Sarah, mar-
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ried to William Vanvalzah; Emeline, to S. S. Barber ; Margaret, to Doctor Charles Wilson ; Jane, to R. B. Barber, Esquire.) Fourth, daughters : Agnes, Margaret, and Dorcas.
James Jenkins, aged eighty-two, left widow, Phoebe, and sons William and James.
Cornelius Dimpsey, left widow, and children, Mary, James, and Jonathan. Captain James Thompson bought the place of his widow, in 1796, late Jacob Zeibach's, in Kelly.
Lietenant Colonel Neigal Gray, twelfth Pennsylvania, of White Deer. Children : John ; Elizabeth, married John Auld ; Isabella, and Robert.
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FAMILIES IN WHITE DEER HOLE VALLEY -- ANDREW GREGG'S WEDDING- CALL TO REVEREND HUGH MORRISON-MEMBERS OF IIIS CONGREGATION.
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EMBERS of Assembly : Samuel Maclay and John White. Sheriff, Thomas Grant. County Commissioners, John Lytle, Walter Clark, and William Gray.
Buffalo township : Constable, John Clark ; Overseers, David Watson and Michael Vought ; Supervisors, Thomas Forster and Andrew Billmyer ; Assessor, William Irwin, Esquire ; Assist- ants, William Moore and Flavel Roan; Collector, John Sierer.
Among residents-Anderson, William ; Barber, Thomas ; Barber, Samuel; Baum, Charles; Carothers, William; Dixon, Sankey ; Getz, Adam; Irwin, Matthew; Johnson, Christopher ; Nevius, Christian ; Pickle, Jacob; Wales, Henry.
White Deer, additional residents-Falls, James ; Farley, Caleb; Farley, John; Laird, Matthew ; Marshall, Richard.
Washington-Grub, Peter ; Hagerman, James; Lawson, John; Sips, Joseph ; Swan, Samuel.
Penn's, among residents, &c .- Ball, George ; Bickle, Simon, dis- tillery ; Biegh, Frederick; Burkert, John ; Bright, Michael; Ditzler,
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John ; Grum, Jacob; Herrold, Simon, hemp-mill ; Hertz, John ; Kremer, Daniel; Lutz, John; Manning, Nathan ; Miller, Widow, saw-mill ; Motz, John, oil-mill ; Mumma, John; Reedy, Peter ; Ruch, John; Snyder, John ; Stump, William, with distillery ; Swineford, Albright, taxed with a slave; Zieber, Adam.
Isle of Que : Weaver, Michael, junior ; Wayland, George.
Sketches by John F. Wolfinger, Esquire.
In 1787, White Deer Hole valley had fourteen families of white settlers, whose names and places of residence were as follows :
I. Rachel Weeks, an old English widow woman, occupied a small log hut or cabin, near the mouth of White Deer Hole creek, between the bank of the river and where the fine brick mansion of John S. Smith now stands. Rachel had six children, named Jeth, Job, Hanna, Jemima, Naomi, and Annie.
2. Thomas Weisner, occupied a cabin on the river bank, near where the bridge at Uniontown now crosses the river Susquehanna, about half a mile north of Rachel Weeks'. Thomas, who had a wife and six or seven children, afterwards moved away to parts unknown.
3. John Rumsey, occupied a cabin on the river bank, north of Wiesner's, and had a wife and nine children, and a small farm here. He is supposed to have come here from the State of New York, and soon after returned to that State. He talked English.
4. George Gray, occupied a cabin on the river bank, about three quarters of a mile north of Rumsey's, and had a wife and three chil- dren. He talked English, and worked at little jobs around among his neighbors, but moved away about two years afterward to parts unknown.
5. Marcus Huling, occupied a cabin on the river bank, about three hundred yards north of Gray's, and had a wife and five chil- dren. He talked English, and worked at his trade, being a black- smith. He afterwards moved higher up, or west, into the Valley, and from thence to Newberry, and from thence again to Youngmans- town, (Mifflinburg,) and finally into York State. He is supposed to have been a cousin of the Marcus Huling, also a blacksmith, who lived at the town of Milton at that day.
6. Cornelius Vanfleet, a New Jerseyman, occupied a cabin that
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stood on the White Deer Hole creek, a little west of the widow Weeks'. He acted as a justice of the peace for many years, and died here on the 7th of December, 1841, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. His remains lie buried in the Presbyterian grave-yard.
7. Peter Dougherty, an Irishman, occupied a cabin on the White Deer Hole creek, about a mile and a quarter above the mouth of the creek. He had a wife and children, and afterwards moved farther west into the Valley, and finally out to the State of Ohio.
8. Eleanor Brown, commonly called " Nellie Brown." She was the widow of Matthew Brown, already noticed, and occupied a cabin on the White Deer Hole creek, about two and a half miles west of its mouth. She died at her son's, William Brown's, cabin, that stood about half a mile west of her own cabin, on the 9th of August, 1814, and her descendants are still found in this Valley and its adjacent parts.
9. Samuel Swan, occupied a cabin that stood about two hundred and thirteen yards due west of Eleanor Brown's. Swan talked Eng- lish, had a wife and children, and afterwards moved away to parts unknown.
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